Idiom of the Week: I Don’t Have All Day

執筆者 | 2015年06月10日 | Idioms

“Would you hurry up? I don’t have all day here!” You can say this when someone is taking a long time to do something and you feel impatient. For example, you are waiting in line at the grocery store and the person ahead of you is very slow to pay. Or...

Idiom of the Week: A Field Day

執筆者 | 2015年06月03日 | Idioms

“If this photo gets out, the journalists will have a field day! You’d better destroy every copy.” “A field day” brings to mind a day of fun and activities outdoors (i.e. in a field), or a festival. But we use it as an idiom to mean a...

Idiom of the Week: Driving Me up the Wall

執筆者 | 2015年05月20日 | Idioms

“The neighbor’s kid joined the school band. He’s practicing his saxophone all day, but he’s still not any good. The noise is driving me up the wall!” If you can’t stand something, it can make you restless. If you’re very...

Idiom of the Week: Get the Picture

執筆者 | 2015年05月13日 | Idioms

“No, I don’t want to see you next week either. I don’t want to see you ever again. Get the picture?” To get the picture is to understand something. You can take in information and words without really understanding it, but when you can...